Kentucky REALTOR® News

Following the recent decision to stop sending listings to Zillow, ListHub announced it will also stop supplying listings data that it aggregates from more than 560 multiple listing services to Trulia, having terminated its syndication agreement with the nation’s second most visited real estate search portal in the wake of its acquisition by Zillow. Read More

Only members of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® and the Canadian Real Estate Association can call themselves REALTORS®. And only REALTORS® are allowed to use the new .REALTOR domain. In a complicated online world, it doesn’t get any easier to let prospects and clients know you adhere to our code of ethics and professionalism — and are a source they can trust. Read More

The report summarizes national findings collected in January 2014 among sales agents, associate brokers, brokers, broker-owners and managers regarding REALTOR practices. It takes into account 1,280 completed surveys and respondents were asked to look back over the previous year to tell about their real estate business experiences with technology. The purpose of the survey is to provide a broad picture of REALTORS’ technology characteristics and needs. Key topics covered are:

A new Pew Research survey on Facebook’s users, released 10 years after the social network’s founding, sheds new light on how relationships are changing in the age of social media. While there are more people than ever using Facebook, only a small percentage of users are sharing details about their lives every day.

Of Facebook’s more than 1.2 billion users, only 10% update their status daily, while only 4% update it more than once a day, according to the Pew survey. About 15% of users comment on photos more than once a day. Read More.